Franti & Spearhead Being Targeted By Fbi

[BeatTRibe]

Bay Area Hip Hop artist Michael Franti and his group Spearhead while enjoying tremendous fan support are being surveilled by the FBI...


read about it here: http://www.daveyd.com/newsfrantiintrouble.html

If you are into hip-hop you should be concerned about this, especially if you care about free speech.

 

[Copenhagen]

Did anybody who read the Democracy Now link see that Denmark doesn't censor his songs and play them on radio...

I might hate Denmark for many things...but that we don't have censorship on anything (apart from racism) is one thing I love. You get the real deal...nothing is worse than a rapper being prohibited from using his daily language which includes profanity...and that new Nelly & Justin video...not a great song but what a great video...especially when you're not watching it on MTV but on danish TV and you see titties and ass all over the screen.

Anyway, the article just goes to show how tv and radio are sucking on their governments dicks and helping to manipulate the truth or hold it back...

 

[BeatTRibe]

Yeah MTV is practicing self-censorship by not allowing any real images of war...only soldiers going off to war and I'm damn well sure we won't see them on MTV when they get back since most of them will be damaged mentally and/or physically.

 

[Big La]

The truth is MTV is just a tool used to make kids buy crap for it's owner, Viacom.

And the fact that it needed to be dragged 'kicking and screaming' to play hip-hop and R&B is funny as hell.

There's a dope documentary on it called "Frontline: Merchants Of Cool". It's a little over the top, but it puts everything in perspective. Check it out if you ever come across it.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/

 

[BeatTRibe]

Yeah the frontline stuff looks pretty interesting, I wanna check it when I get a chance.